1/19/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/22/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon RDS for Db2 supports Cross-Region Automated Backups. With this launch, customers can now choose to automatically replicate the backups created by RDS for their Db2 databases to a secondary AWS Region.
Amazon SQS announces support for logging data events in AWS CloudTrail in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for logging data event SQS APIs using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into SQS activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
AWS announces higher read IOPS for Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now delivers 40% higher read IOPS per file system, making it easier to power data-intensive file workloads on AWS.
AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs is now available in two additional AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can use AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs in Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary) regions. The expansion into these regions enables customers to export detailed telemetry information such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, and various metadata for all of their network flows. This feature provides customers with an AWS native tool to centrally export and inspect flow-level telemetry for all network traffic that is traversing between Amazon VPCs and on-premises networks via AWS Transit Gateway.
Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports RSA 3072-bit certificates, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) 256, 384 and 521-bit certificates via AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). This launch enables customers use stronger encryption during transit to meet their compliance goals.
Stream data into Snowflake using Kinesis Data Firehose and Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming (Preview)
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (Firehose) now offers direct integration with Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming in preview. Firehose enables customers to reliably capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Splunk, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can stream clickstream, application, and AWS service logs from multiple sources, including Kinesis Data Streams, to Snowflake. With a few clicks, customers can setup a Firehose stream to deliver data to Snowflake. Firehose automatically scales to stream gigabytes of data, and records are available in Snowflake within seconds.
Amazon ECS announces managed instance draining
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) announced managed instance draining, a new capability that facilitates graceful shutdown of workloads deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by safely stopping and rescheduling workloads to other, non-terminating instances. This capability enables customers to simplify infrastructure maintenance workflows, such as rolling out a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version, without needing to build custom solutions to gracefully shutdown instances without disrupting their workloads.
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
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- Learn more about Amazon ECS task health and task replacement
- Amazon EKS Extended Support Fees for Kubernetes Versions